Open Compute Project's first APAC Summit happened in Taipei in August 2025, and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) was on the floor for the whole week. The reel from the show says it more concisely than text ever will, but the underlying point is worth spelling out: the conversation at OCP APAC 2025 made it impossible to keep the packaging supply chain and the hyperscale data center conversation in separate rooms anymore.
From AI clusters to advanced packaging, the hyperscale data centers need it all — and "all" now includes a packaging architecture that can keep up with the bandwidth, power, and thermal envelope of an AI rack. That is the conversation ASE went to OCP APAC to be part of.
Why OCP APAC Mattered in 2025
The Open Compute Project was founded as a way for hyperscalers to share infrastructure designs openly. Its summits have historically been where the rack-, server-, and data-center-scale conversations happen — power distribution, cooling, network fabric, accelerator integration. OCP APAC 2025 was the first edition in the region, and Taipei was the right host because Taiwan sits structurally between two pieces of the AI compute stack that used to be discussed separately:
- The silicon-and-package layer (the foundry-OSAT side) — where the AI accelerator, the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stack, and the advanced package they share live.
- The rack-and-data-center layer (the hyperscaler and ODM side) — where those packages get integrated into the OCP-style rack that ends up in a data center.
Putting both layers in one room — what OCP APAC 2025 did — surfaces the design constraints that only show up at the seam. Power delivery is one of them. Optical interconnect is another. Thermal envelope is a third. None of those are problems any single layer can solve alone.
What ASE Brought to the Conversation
ASE — the world's largest outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider — is the layer that lives precisely on that seam. The company's contributions at the show traced the seam directly:
- VIPack™ — the six-pillar advanced packaging platform (Fan-Out Chip-on-Substrate / FOCoS, FOCoS-Bridge, Fan-Out Package on Package / FOPoP, Fan-Out System-in-Package / FOSiP, 2.5D/3D IC, and co-packaged optics / CPO) — provides the package architecture that AI accelerators and HBM stacks need.
- FOCoS-Bridge with through silicon via (TSV) addresses one of the seam problems directly: reducing power loss by approximately 3x for next-generation AI and HPC applications by improving the path between the AI chip and its surrounding memory and silicon bridges.
- Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) addresses another seam problem — the interconnect bottleneck that AI clusters hit when copper traces can no longer carry the bandwidth or distance an AI rack needs. CPO brings the optical engine inside the package, alongside the switch ASIC.
- powerSiP™ brings transformative power delivery into the package, increasing power efficiency by 50% for AI and data center applications — a number whose meaning is most visible when you look at it at the rack level.
Each of those technologies is documented in detail on ASE's site; what mattered at OCP APAC was that the audience could see how each one drops directly into the rack-level questions OCP is built around.
What Hyperscalers Need from a Packaging Partner
Talking to system architects on the floor, three demands kept showing up:
- A package that can carry the bandwidth. Chiplet-class compute and HBM stacks need redistribution layer (RDL) line width and line spacing (L/S) at advanced nodes, plus silicon-bridge density. FOCoS-Bridge sits there.
- A package that can handle the power. AI accelerators draw hundreds of watts in steady state. Power loss between the package and the board, and inefficiency in DC-DC conversion, both eat directly into rack-level TCO. powerSiP™ and FOCoS-Bridge with TSV both attack that.
- A package that breaks the copper interconnect ceiling. Once switch ASICs cross 102.4 Tbps and reach toward 204.8 Tbps, the pluggable optical module model is hard to sustain on energy alone. CPO, as part of the VIPack™ platform, is one of the few architectures that scales past it.
A package supplier that can speak to all three — and bring measured data for each — is the kind of partner OCP-aligned hyperscalers are now structurally looking for. That is the position ASE went to OCP APAC to demonstrate.
What the Show Itself Showed
The energy of a first-edition summit is hard to fake. OCP APAC 2025 brought hyperscalers, ODMs, accelerator design teams, OSAT engineers, and silicon photonics teams onto the same floor for the first time in the region. The collaboration was tangible — ecosystem partners who would normally be one or two steps removed in the supply chain were within meters of each other, working through specific design questions in person.
The OCP model — open design contributions that anyone in the ecosystem can adopt — works exactly because of that proximity. APAC having its own summit means those conversations can now happen in the same time zone as where most of the packaging is built.
Where This Goes Next
OCP APAC 2025 confirmed something that was already visible across the year: heterogeneous integration is the architecture that ties AI silicon to AI infrastructure, and the OSAT layer is no longer optional in the system conversation. For ASE, the implication is straightforward — keep showing up where the system architects are, keep bringing the packaging architecture that supports the bandwidth, power, and interconnect demands of an AI rack, and keep collaborating across the ecosystem because no single layer ships an AI cluster on its own.
The next OCP APAC will only get bigger. Given the demonstrated impact of bleeding-edge ecosystem collaboration, this one had nowhere to go but up.
Want to talk packaging architecture for AI infrastructure? Connect with ASE via ase.aseglobal.com or @aseglobal on LinkedIn.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is OCP APAC, and why did 2025 matter? A: OCP APAC is the Asia-Pacific edition of the Open Compute Project Summit, the open-source community that shares hyperscale data center infrastructure designs. OCP APAC 2025 in Taipei was the inaugural APAC edition. It mattered because Taiwan sits structurally between the silicon-and-package layer and the rack-and-data-center layer of the AI compute stack, and the summit was the first time both layers met in one APAC room.
Q: What technologies did ASE feature at OCP APAC 2025? A: ASE's reference points traced the seam between silicon and system: the VIPack™ advanced packaging platform (six pillars), FOCoS-Bridge with through silicon via (TSV) for ~3x lower AI/HPC power loss, co-packaged optics (CPO) for AI interconnect, and powerSiP™ for ~50% higher power efficiency in AI and data center applications.
Q: Why is packaging now part of the hyperscale data center conversation? A: AI accelerator clusters demand bandwidth, power, and thermal envelopes that the package — not the board, not the rack — is the limiting layer for. Chiplet and HBM integration means the accelerator and its memory share the same advanced package. Power loss and interconnect inefficiency at the package show up directly in rack-level energy budgets. That is why OCP-style data center conversations now have to include packaging.
Q: What does Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) solve? A: CPO addresses the copper interconnect bottleneck inside switch ASICs and AI accelerators. Once switch bandwidth crosses 102.4 Tbps and approaches 204.8 Tbps, pluggable optical modules become energy-inefficient and physically limiting. CPO brings the optical engine inside the package, alongside the ASIC, dramatically shortening the electrical path and reducing per-bit energy.
Q: Why is Taipei the right host for OCP APAC? A: Because Taiwan hosts a disproportionate share of the world's foundry and OSAT capacity, including ASE — the world's largest OSAT — putting hyperscalers, ODMs, accelerator design teams, OSAT engineers, and silicon photonics teams on one floor in Taipei collapses an otherwise multi-time-zone conversation into a single venue.
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